Can you give an estimate of the number of favorites that you have in your system? Also, what is your operating system and processor speed?

I think first time start up after a re-boot is always a little longer. Since I use IE Favorites rather than bookmarks, I don't know about startup speed without. I have 400 files and 38 folders in my favorites. I run on XP SP3 and a 1.80 gigahertz AMD Sempron processor with 960 Megabytes Installed Memory.

@Dorian - I am in agreement with enaitzjga. Rather than do away with favicons, allow an option for those who want an obese number of bookmarks not to use the favicons. Favicons have become one of the marks of a mature browser for some. I cannot understand 5000 bookmarks - it would take three and a half days to click through and look at them at the rate of one a minute!

This is a great work. Clean, fast, and Stable. Yes Stable! Previous versions sometimes crash when I open a link with a new tub. I nontheless used K-Melon as my main browser for its great performance and features. But now with the problem being fixed, K-Meleon 1.5 is perfect for me.

Thanks to DORIAN and all the devlopment team ! Congratulations... This 1.5 version is one of the best i ever tested : so fast, stability, much less using memory than other browsers. I keep it as default browser and let firefox on the side...
Keep the good job on.
Have a nice day
Regios

I am a fan of K-Meleon! Thnx x10 for the new version!
I just have two problems. 1. When I click clear all data in tools tab no action is taken and i have to do the cleaninng one by one which works. This was not a problem of my installed previous version of the browser. 2. May be its my fault of installing the program but this time I lost my preserved sessions (groups) from the previous version.

QuoteRelease Notes3 If you wish to go on using your existing profile that was created by a version prior to K-Meleon 1.5, open Edit - Preferences - Macro Extension, enable macro module compat and restart K-Meleon 1.5. This way you can also let your existing Groups be converted into Sessions.

QuoteRelease Notes3 If you wish to go on using your existing profile that was created by a version prior to K-Meleon 1.5, open Edit - Preferences - Macro Extension, enable macro module compat and restart K-Meleon 1.5. This way you can also let your existing Groups be converted into Sessions.

Search your olds Groups in Sessions menu.

Thanks desga2. I keep forgetting about the loader. <Alt><F><K> removes the window, but K-Meleon is still running as a process and must be killed from the task manager.

Once this was done, upon restart, a message popped up stating that the profile was created with a version prior to 1.5, and that all groups would be saved as sessions.

Final questions - what is the preferred method of cleanly restarting K-Meleon? Also, once the groups have been converted to sessions, can compat mode be turned off?

Updating K-Meleon 1.5 with Seamonkey Nightly is more complicated than K-Meleon 1.1.5.

Because embed_lite.dll does not allow you the nightly build xpcom_core.dll without crashing. Deleting embed_lite.dll

The xpcom_core.dll from K-Meleon 1.5 does not allow you to update gklayout.dll and gkparser.dll using the xpcom_core.dll from K-Meleon 1.1.5 allows you to update klayout.dll and gkparser.dll. The embed_lite.dll also has to removed when using the xpcom_core.dll from K-Meleon 1.1.5.

The last method of updating K-Meleon 1.5.0 with nightly builds is to copy xpcom_core.dll, gklayout.dll, gkparser.dll from K-Meleon 1.5 to K-Meleon 1.5 after updating. Making sure that embed_lite.dll is present. If it is not present copy it to K-Meleon 1.5

PS K-Meleon 1.1.6 can be updated with the same methods above. Except that you have to use K-Meleon 1.1.6 dlls instead of K-Meleon 1.5 dlls.

I definitely favor an option to switch favicons on and off if that increases the number of possible bookmarks.

I have a HUGE number of folders and links which I actually NEED and USE on a regular basis. Several thousand, in fact. I need to keep Firefox for serious work in order to be able to hold the full list :-)

Another solution which I haven't tried is to use Opera to manage links, handling the Opera hotlist with K-meleon. Does the hotlist.dll have the same limitations as the bookmarks.dll ?

I've tried to split lists and link them as bookmarks to overcome k-meleon's limit but editing or modifying those ancillary lists is a hassle.

Sure wish I were a good enough coder to raise the bookmark'ceiling' by myself!

Have you thought about using a 3rd party bookmark manager for your permanent bookmarks?

I use GUL which I found here. First I backed up (zipped) my everuday bookmarks from K-Meleon, then I edited it down to my permanent ones. I installed GUL inside K-Meleon's folder (C:\Program Files\K-meleon\GUL) and then set it up to use K-Meleon and imported the new bookmark file. Then I unzipped my everyday bookmarks back into the profile folder (I use the ini file to keep everythying inside the program's folder and sub-folder structure). There are other more robust bookmark managers, but this one works for me.

You must created a new pref entry in about:config.
Go to Edit -> Configuration -> Browser Configuration (or type about:config in URL bar)
Right click in preference list, and select New -> Boolean.
Named it: font.askWhenNeeded
And set value to: false